The price of the ads is factored into the products. You (and society in general) still pay for all of it, in a horribly inefficient way and with manipulative middlemen getting a cut.
I don't agree with GP, but to be fair, GUIs (even admin tools) do usually show a confirm dialog before most destructive operations. And even if not, it's often more difficult to accidently maneuver into a "dangerous" part of the app than it is to misspell a shell command.
Seems like a reasonable server side load distribution scheme would accomplish the same thing without introducing the protocol overhead and the (comparatively) massive complexity of bittorrent. Manually choosing a download mirror should be reserved for the geeks, other people should get a reasonable default option which takes into account their location and the load of the servers (or at least how many people have been sent there recently).
Huh. Those are some harsh numbers, particularly since they surpass even the death toll in Mexico. I wonder if we'll find out in 10 or 20 years that the US funded some of the violence in Venezuela. Given the track record, I wouldn't be surprised.
Well, if I had read on instead of posting in an early thread, I would have known that a) these guys are using OSM data (a fact sorely missing from the summary) and b) you actually CAN use OSM data with Garmin satnavs.
Sound from your comment as if it doesn't have special hike/bike maps... I don't know about GB, but that's not going to cut it in many places... There is a huge number of bike routes that are perfectly fine for road bikes, but which most navigation software (including for the most part Google Maps) is blissfully unaware of. I assume they are selling bike map packs for some areas and some devices. OSM coverage about those routes is extremely good from what I have seen, too bad the satnav gadgets probably can't use that data.
And of course it's pretty grim to ignore the casualties on the other side: if you're only fighting asymmetrical wars, it's not surprising that your own casualties are going to decrease, no thanks to global markets and large corporations.
You can make all sorts of measurements, but none of them give you a result on a scale from good to bad or even from obvious to stupid. Eclipse is more complicated, less responsive and more buggy than notepad. I'm not sure how you're going to measure overall productivity with a certain app in any meaningful, controlled way.
Though clearly you had some horrible experience with Eclipse that I haven't had so far (or had a problem often that I have only rarely). I don't recall ever having a problem with the program crashing or misbehaving due to NPEs, for one thing.
And if you like the abhorrent color and the weedy taste of spinach, I guess you might like spinach. People are good at making subjective decisions sound objective.
Very true. So if you were judgemental about people who deal primarily with the military, you might consider farmers (or prostitutes) selling almost exclusively to the army in a bad light.
OTOH, it seems sensible to consider the profession or the market as a whole: since much of the market for groceries is NOT military, it's reasonable to assume a farmer probably didn't enter the market to sell to them in particular, he just sells to the "highest bidder" (or something like it) irrespective of their status. For instance, a farmer in Iraq might conceivably do most of his business with the US forces, simply because they pay the highest price and/or they are much of the market that exists in his area right now. (I have no idea whether this example has any resemblance to real life.)
One could argue a whole lot of things but few of them are relevant to the question whether or not this guy (and his company) got rich selling stuff to the MIC.
I guess I'll continue getting rid of my weed the old fashioned way.;) Sorry, could not resist, hope you get better RSN. At least it makes for a good story.
What percentage of HESCO's business is generated by the military? What percentage of farmers' and prostitutes' business is generated by the military? Obviously there isn't a clear cut barrier here, there rarely is IRL.
I don't know what's special about it, either; Tor services are interesting, but in this case they don't make a lot of sense. Tor usually prevents the server (and others) from determining the identity of the client. Tor hidden services extend this protection to the server itself, ie. you can access a site in the onion domain (if it works) without having any reliable way to determine the site's IP. The client's IP is unknown in both cases, so no, it's not more anonymous in that respect. I don't see the point in using a hidden service for a website with a well known public identity.
Mobility, construction, infrastructure, heating are all more environmentally expensive with urban sprawl; not to mention the obvious increase in land use. In that situation, telecommuting might be a net gain (I don't know), but it won't make up for any of those factors. So it might be a good thing, but I doubt it'll reverse anything.
An article from a respected security researcher appeared in a big German newspaper today. He also speculates that this is an attack on Iranian installations, citing talks with various European hackers and other insiders.
- 60% of the stuxnet infections are in Iran (wtf)
- stuxnet was supposed to stop propagating in early 2009, it continued to do so only on systems which had reset their system clock (e.g. to get around licensing restrictions)
- in early 2009, the Iranian nuclear program suffered a harsh setback: a Wikileaks document revealed an accident/malfunction in one of their plants in Natanz; the head of the nuclear program was sacked
- nuclear centrifuge control seems to fit in with the structure of stuxnet at the deepest level examined so far (ie synchronized operation of a large number of PLCs)
Of course this is still speculation, but well-reasoned speculation is really the best anybody can do in a case like this.
You need to either store the webcam in another room or wrap it in aluminum foil, otherwise the government will use USB RAYS to connect the cam wirelessly!
It's something like T_p-w1 + T_w1-s + T_s-c versus T_p-w2 + T_w2-d + T_d-c, where T is transport cost, p is producer, w is a wholesaler, d is delivery company and c is the consumer. Most people including you argue that T_d-c is close to zero since a mail truck drives by their house, anyway. Well, for one thing, mail isn't transported in a truck where I live (and that may be true for the UK, as well). And T_s-c (transport store-customer) really is free since nearly all stores are within walking distance. I'm sure the logistics for groceries are just about as efficient as they can possibly get, and it stands to reason that the more general problem of package logistics can't be solved in an equally efficient manner.
That aside, all factors can vary, it's more complicated than the Slashdot groupthink seems to assume.
No, it's one of many, many reports that show urban sprawl leads to increased pollution, instead of assuming it. That doesn't mean it has to be true in all cases, maybe your situation is different, maybe not.
Well, the study can't make a statement that's true for every living situation. Since you live in basically the most inefficient circumstances possible (high wealth consumerist suburban), perhaps in your case shipping is more efficient, though it's still incredibly inefficient compared to other living situations. Even then, one would think you could stop at the bookstore on your way to wherever, or combine trips in some other way.
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The price of the ads is factored into the products. You (and society in general) still pay for all of it, in a horribly inefficient way and with manipulative middlemen getting a cut.
Don't even get me started on the Olympics...
I don't agree with GP, but to be fair, GUIs (even admin tools) do usually show a confirm dialog before most destructive operations. And even if not, it's often more difficult to accidently maneuver into a "dangerous" part of the app than it is to misspell a shell command.
Seems like a reasonable server side load distribution scheme would accomplish the same thing without introducing the protocol overhead and the (comparatively) massive complexity of bittorrent. Manually choosing a download mirror should be reserved for the geeks, other people should get a reasonable default option which takes into account their location and the load of the servers (or at least how many people have been sent there recently).
No, it was profitable for the corporations involved. The country's image is utterly irrelevant.
That's okay, before that, we spent about a thousand years stealing from them.
Huh. Those are some harsh numbers, particularly since they surpass even the death toll in Mexico. I wonder if we'll find out in 10 or 20 years that the US funded some of the violence in Venezuela. Given the track record, I wouldn't be surprised.
Well, if I had read on instead of posting in an early thread, I would have known that a) these guys are using OSM data (a fact sorely missing from the summary) and b) you actually CAN use OSM data with Garmin satnavs.
Sound from your comment as if it doesn't have special hike/bike maps... I don't know about GB, but that's not going to cut it in many places... There is a huge number of bike routes that are perfectly fine for road bikes, but which most navigation software (including for the most part Google Maps) is blissfully unaware of. I assume they are selling bike map packs for some areas and some devices. OSM coverage about those routes is extremely good from what I have seen, too bad the satnav gadgets probably can't use that data.
The number of people who have died* in the Iraq war is probably less then dies in the first engagement of any other war in US history.
That'd be completely wrong even if you only consider US casualties (4400+ for Iraq). List of wars involving the United States
And of course it's pretty grim to ignore the casualties on the other side: if you're only fighting asymmetrical wars, it's not surprising that your own casualties are going to decrease, no thanks to global markets and large corporations.
You can make all sorts of measurements, but none of them give you a result on a scale from good to bad or even from obvious to stupid. Eclipse is more complicated, less responsive and more buggy than notepad. I'm not sure how you're going to measure overall productivity with a certain app in any meaningful, controlled way.
Though clearly you had some horrible experience with Eclipse that I haven't had so far (or had a problem often that I have only rarely). I don't recall ever having a problem with the program crashing or misbehaving due to NPEs, for one thing.
And if you like the abhorrent color and the weedy taste of spinach, I guess you might like spinach. People are good at making subjective decisions sound objective.
Very true. So if you were judgemental about people who deal primarily with the military, you might consider farmers (or prostitutes) selling almost exclusively to the army in a bad light.
OTOH, it seems sensible to consider the profession or the market as a whole: since much of the market for groceries is NOT military, it's reasonable to assume a farmer probably didn't enter the market to sell to them in particular, he just sells to the "highest bidder" (or something like it) irrespective of their status. For instance, a farmer in Iraq might conceivably do most of his business with the US forces, simply because they pay the highest price and/or they are much of the market that exists in his area right now. (I have no idea whether this example has any resemblance to real life.)
One could argue a whole lot of things but few of them are relevant to the question whether or not this guy (and his company) got rich selling stuff to the MIC.
I guess I'll continue getting rid of my weed the old fashioned way. ;) Sorry, could not resist, hope you get better RSN. At least it makes for a good story.
What percentage of HESCO's business is generated by the military? What percentage of farmers' and prostitutes' business is generated by the military? Obviously there isn't a clear cut barrier here, there rarely is IRL.
I guess that's mostly a matter of taste.
I don't know what's special about it, either; Tor services are interesting, but in this case they don't make a lot of sense. Tor usually prevents the server (and others) from determining the identity of the client. Tor hidden services extend this protection to the server itself, ie. you can access a site in the onion domain (if it works) without having any reliable way to determine the site's IP. The client's IP is unknown in both cases, so no, it's not more anonymous in that respect. I don't see the point in using a hidden service for a website with a well known public identity.
Mobility, construction, infrastructure, heating are all more environmentally expensive with urban sprawl; not to mention the obvious increase in land use. In that situation, telecommuting might be a net gain (I don't know), but it won't make up for any of those factors. So it might be a good thing, but I doubt it'll reverse anything.
An article from a respected security researcher appeared in a big German newspaper today. He also speculates that this is an attack on Iranian installations, citing talks with various European hackers and other insiders.
- 60% of the stuxnet infections are in Iran (wtf)
- stuxnet was supposed to stop propagating in early 2009, it continued to do so only on systems which had reset their system clock (e.g. to get around licensing restrictions)
- in early 2009, the Iranian nuclear program suffered a harsh setback: a Wikileaks document revealed an accident/malfunction in one of their plants in Natanz; the head of the nuclear program was sacked
- nuclear centrifuge control seems to fit in with the structure of stuxnet at the deepest level examined so far (ie synchronized operation of a large number of PLCs)
Of course this is still speculation, but well-reasoned speculation is really the best anybody can do in a case like this.
I see. As in "pigs can fly"...
You need to either store the webcam in another room or wrap it in aluminum foil, otherwise the government will use USB RAYS to connect the cam wirelessly!
It's something like T_p-w1 + T_w1-s + T_s-c versus T_p-w2 + T_w2-d + T_d-c, where T is transport cost, p is producer, w is a wholesaler, d is delivery company and c is the consumer. Most people including you argue that T_d-c is close to zero since a mail truck drives by their house, anyway. Well, for one thing, mail isn't transported in a truck where I live (and that may be true for the UK, as well). And T_s-c (transport store-customer) really is free since nearly all stores are within walking distance. I'm sure the logistics for groceries are just about as efficient as they can possibly get, and it stands to reason that the more general problem of package logistics can't be solved in an equally efficient manner.
That aside, all factors can vary, it's more complicated than the Slashdot groupthink seems to assume.
"Goods can be plucked off the fields on demand (reducing the amount of time they need to be in cooled storage)."
Right, because that's how it works.
No, it's one of many, many reports that show urban sprawl leads to increased pollution, instead of assuming it. That doesn't mean it has to be true in all cases, maybe your situation is different, maybe not.
Well, the study can't make a statement that's true for every living situation. Since you live in basically the most inefficient circumstances possible (high wealth consumerist suburban), perhaps in your case shipping is more efficient, though it's still incredibly inefficient compared to other living situations. Even then, one would think you could stop at the bookstore on your way to wherever, or combine trips in some other way.